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Masum's 'crossfire' killing pre-planned Allege relatives

STAFF CORRESPONDENT
Relatives and neighbours of Jagannath University student Iqbal Hossain Masum, who died in 'crossfire' with crime-busting force Cheetah in city's Rayer Bazar on July 9, yesterday described the killing as a pre-planned murder.
They hinted that someone might have used the members of Cheetah, a special wing of the Detective Branch (DB) of police, to
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take revenge on the family or they might have killed him on the basis of 'misleadinginformation'.
Still reeling from the shock, the family members of the slain student alleged that a Tk 26.9 lakh money suit brought by Masum's father against a union parishad (UP) chairman and some police officials might be the reason behind the killing.
Masum's father Khandaker Abul Khaer filed the case on October 17, 2001 against the chairman, two officers-in-charge (OCs) of Charfashion Police Station, a SubInspector (SI), and three others with a Bhola court.
"The hearing on the deposition of the last prosecution witness is scheduled for July 25 and the verdict is expected to be delivered soon," Khaer told The Daily Star.
A retired UN official-turned-businessman, Khaer said he included the policemen as accused along with Nilkomol UP Chairman Iqbal Hossain Likhon, as they did not take action against the chairman and his men for damaging on several occasions his vehicles and goods.
Inspector Mosleh Uddin, his successor Forkan Shikder, and SI Abdus Sattar did not even take a case against the chairman.
The police had identified Masum as 'Gharkata Masum', and claimed that he was accused in four murder cases. But they have yet to come up with any specific evidence or records to substantiate the claim though three days have passed since the killing.
The police claim appears even flimsier after an investigation by The Daily Star, which reveals that Masum's name was not included even in the FIRs (firstinformation report) of those cases.
Police said Alamgir Mallik, arrested in connection with a double-murder in 2003 on Dhaka University campus, recently gave statement to a magistrate under 164 of Criminal Procedure Code, mentioning one Masum as accused. He told the magistrate that six people including he and Masum were involved in four murders.
The police claim and Alamgir's confessional statement raised doubts as Alamgir could not even mention Masum's full namein the statement.
Meanwhile, attempts by the police to establish Masum as an infamous criminal are still on. The public relations section of the DB yesterday supplied to reporters some papers they claimed to be of cases against Masum. But none of those contains any official signature.
The locals of Shershah Suri Road area said Masum was modest and polite, and they never found him to be in company of local hoodlums. His sister Shimul Khandaker said she wonders how come her brother be a criminal when most of the time he would confine himself to the boundary of their house.
She said he secured first division both in Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations. A student of honours in management, Masum was supposed to sit the first year final examinations on July 28.